Got Poweredge 6400 running on Centos 4, moved it to the basement & started Oracle 10.1 install.

OK, about item 8.

The tricky part of the business was the boot. I had grub stage2read errors coming out the wazoo, and eventually gave up on trying “conventional” fixes. Booting with a floppy drive turned out to be the answer, as long as it referenced an initrd. Quite the learning experience.